Nordaustlandet

Svalbard · Norway

Nordaustlandet, Norway
Photo: Jerzy Strzelecki, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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July to August
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The second-largest island of Svalbard, dominated by two vast ice caps and polar desert. Almost entirely uninhabited, it is a protected reserve important for walrus, polar bears and seabirds.

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